I was ridin my 4 wheeler alone one day down a very established trail that everyone around here rides on. There lots of small trails branching off of it but very few ever get any traffic because they dont go any where. well i decided to see what was down a few of them. the first had been driven on within the past couple of years, but I saw nothing special. the second was the same way . BUT the third trail i picked obviously hadn't been driven down, the road bed looked exactly like the forest floor on either side of the trail, there were up to 6 in trees growing in the middle of the trail. At 1.6 miles on my Rancher's tripmeter I saw a small cabin that looked strange. it had no windows and a huge padlock on a vault looking door a big sign on the door said US GOVERNMENT PROPERTY NO TRESPASSING. there was fresh cut fire wood on the porch and slight SMOKE coming from the chimney, BUT NO signs of any one around-no tire tracks no hiking trails not even a deer trail any where around. it really freaked me out to think what the gov't was doing in a little shack in the middle of nowhere. only like 5-6 miles from my house. I asked around and no one knew what i was talking about..................................................................................

There is another trail with a water pump on top of a ridgelike 4 miles from the road. you have to pump it like 5 min continuous to get water. No one knows why it is there either...............

The creepiest thing though was when my friend and I found a trampoline in a clearing with symbols etched on the trees and homemade voodoo type dolls hanging from the trampoline. there were also weird stone statues between the trees with the symbols, but the only one I got a good look at was a rat-gargoyle thing ..............

Found a meth lab on West Vaco timber property. It was booby trapped with a shotgun mounted in a tree. My friend walked toward the lab and I saw the fishing line strung about 8 in off the ground leading to a sawed off single shot 20 gauge mounted in a tree. I told him to be careful and back up that i wasn't ****tn him. he didnt believe me until he looked and saw my face. he walked back to me and I pointed out the gun. Then my 6'1" 250lb ruffneck tuffguy friend puked and began crying like a little kid when he realized what could have happened. we got the hell out of there fast.

the funniest thing i saw was 2 40 something yr old people like rabbits in a ford taurus about 300 yrds off the access road to the trail. We waved and drove on by. they didnt hang around to finish what they stared though.

Ok now see, me personally I am the type of guy that would have gone and got some friends and come back and checked out that little Govt. cabin because there was no immediate danger and thats just the kind of curious S.O.B I am.Besides YOUR/OUR taxes pay any govt. funded operation.They hide way too much crap from us anyways and if I had a chance to figure out something like that I would be all over it like the star quarterback on a virgin on prom night.If you decide to go here are a few tips.
1.=DO NOT GO ALONE- if they decide to be hostile they are a lot more likely to do so if you are alone.One person disappearing is easy to explain.A few people disappearing requires a more elaborate story.Anything that causes them more headache may be deemed not worth the trouble.
2.= Take a camera and take a pic then get out and put the pic in a safe place with instructions left with some one who is not going about what you are doing,when you plan to return etc.
3.= Take your I.D. If you do get stopped it is a good idea to be able to prove who you are and where you live.
4.=Go during the daytime.Your presence in the area will be much easier to explain away during daylight hours than if you were to go at night.
5.=keep an eye out for any video cameras or any other type of surveillence in the area.
6.= DO NOT TAKE ANY TYPE OF WEAPONS- Don't give them any excuse to shoot you.
7.= If you get caught be polite,respectful and apologetic.

Just a few hints for any type of undertaking like that.and always remember
I LOVE MY COUNTRY BUT I FEAR MY GOVERNMENT.

And from the looks of it all the really fun stuff is happening in Tennessee.Wheres my invite guys? I'll bring the

Wow, lots of interesting stories. Some are kinda scary. Pa Chapters last meet, as we were heading down the one trail, I belive it was Ryan36s that had stopped because he seen and old 80-86 ford pick up layin on its side down over and embankment. It was still pretty complete but looks like it's been there a while. Other than that nothing real interesting yet for me.

not really weird or scary but anyhow I was wheeling at a place close to my house several years ago and I found an old baseball diamond and backstop that was all grown over. The property used to belong to a ship building yard back around the 1900's and there also used to be barrack's on the location and apparently this was part of an old park tha was closed down. You would never know that anything had ever been built there by looking at some of the places.

Just getting this topic back into circulation hopefully cuz i love reading bout what others have found.We should start an ORW Scavenger Hunt.
Rules:
#1- it HAS to be off road.Somewhere you need a truck or atv to get to it.
#2- if you find the object you have to take a pic.
#3-you have to be a member to play.
#4-if you post an object for the scavenger hunt you can't be the one to "find" it.

Here's the first object.----an old steel wheel tractor.And I don't mean a tractor that the tires have rotted off I mean one that has the steel plates bolted diagonally to it for traction.

I don't have any prizes or anything but I just think it will be fun to play.Happy Hunting!
Ariestiger

I am game. I live in farm country so this might be an easy one. Provided I can get on the land.

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this is kinda a wierd one but not as scary as the little house or the cemetary one. me and a few friends were out on these min. maintnence roads by where i live. there are a few houses out there but its mostly jsut hunting land and stuff. its also a place that is pretty well know around here for being a good party spot cause it crosses back and forth through 2 counties and its hard to get out there in a car. well anyway there is a cell tower out there in the middle of the woods that the trail goes rght bye and this time we were out there i happen to have to relive myself so i stopped and went up bu the tower and while i was u now i looked up at the tower and there on the tower near the top was a ladies puse and a ladies shirt and the shirt was tied to the tower with the sleeves tied around the pole of the tower. this tower has to be atleast 50 feet tall and very narrow. but the scaries part was about 3 days later i saw on the news that soemone had reported the stuff on the tower and i turned out to belong to a girl that was reported missing 3 years earlier and she ahs still never been found and the shirt and purse had only been outside according tot he police for alittle over a week........

oh and there is a summer camp out in the trails named Camp Cherith which by local rumor was used in part of the jason movies as the camp in the first jason movie cause its (sucluded sp?) and there is a lake right there and it is only used for about half the summer. i don't know if ther is and truth to the rumor but its been around for what like 30 years and is still heard every once and awhile